I knew going into last night I would be disappointed about the outcome of the Best Original Score award. Last night’s outcome is added to the long list of the Academy awarding a lesser-deserving score.

Can you hum the theme from Midnight Express? No? But what about Superman?

Certain scores, like certain films that went undeservedly unrecognized, are now more appreciated as time has passed. That they weren’t Oscar-winning scores now seems like a mistake. Here are a few:

1978:Midnight Express over Superman 1979:A Little Romance over Star Trek: The Motion Picture 1980:Fame over The Empire Strikes Back 1981:Chariots of Fire over Raiders of the Lost Ark1986:‘Round Midnight over Aliens, Hoosiers, and The Mission1995:Il Postino over Apollo 13 and Braveheart 1998:Life is Beautiful over Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line 1999:The Red Violin over American Beauty, Angela’s Ashes, and The Cider House Rules 2000:Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon over Gladiator 2005:Brokeback Mountain over Memoirs of a Geisha 2006:Babel (a mind-boggling back-to-back win for composer Gustavo Santoalalla) over everything else 2010:The Social Network over How to Train Your Dragon and Inception